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Hitler Assassination Strike Force

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1 Treaty of Versailles 2 Antony. Lentin, "Germany: a New Carthage?," History Today (Jan. 2012) 62#1 pp. 20-27

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3 Hitler, Mein Kampf 1999, p. 52 4 About the Great Depression, University of Illinois 5 ¨Weimar Republic and the Great Depression". Historylearningsite.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-09-04

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6 Halperin, Samuel William (1965) [1946]. Germany Tried Democracy: A Political History of the Reich from 1918

to 1933. New York: W.W. Norton 7 Halperin pp. 477-79 8 Shirer, William L. (1960). The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster, p. 192 9 Bullock, Alan (1962) [1952]. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. London: Penguin Books., p. 265 10 Shirer p. 199

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11 Shirer p. 258 12 Weinberg, Gerhard (1970). The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany Diplomatic Revolution in Europe 1933–1936.

Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, pp. 26-27 13 Kershaw, Ian (2008). Hitler: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company p.297 14 Butler, Ewan; Young, Gordon (1989). The Life and Death of Hermann Göring, p.159

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15 Shirer p. 696-730

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16 Shirer p. 863 17 Kurtz, Harold, July Plot in Taylor 1974, p. 226.

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18 “Leopold Trepper,” Spartacus Educational, <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUStrepper.htm> 19 “Wilhelm Pieck,” German Historical Museum,

<http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/PieckWilhelm/index.html> 20 “Wilhelm Pieck,” Spartacus Educational, <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERpieck.htm>

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21 “Walter Ulbricht,” Encyclopedia Britanica, <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/613163/Walter-Ulbricht> 22 “Ludwig Beck,” Spartacus Educational, <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERbeck.htm 23 “Ludwig Beck,” Encyclopedia Britanica, <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/57913/Ludwig-Beck> 24 “Friedrich Olbricht,” Spartacus Educational, <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERolbricht.htm> 25 “Friedrich Olbricht,” Jewish Virtual Library <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Olbricht.html>

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26 “Erwin Rommel,” Spartacus Educational, <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERrommel.htm> 27 “Erwin Rommel,” Jewish Virtual Library, <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Rommel.html> 28 “Erwin von Witzleben,” German Hisorical Museum, <http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/WitzlebenErwin/index.html> 29 “Erwin von Witzleben,” Jewish Virtual Library, <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/witzleben.html>

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30 “Wilhelm Canaris,” Jewish Virtual Library, <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/canaris.html> 31 “Wilhelm Canaris,” Spartacus Educational, <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERcanaris.htm>

32 “Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin,” Jewish Virtual Library, <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Schmenzin.html> 33 “Carl Goerdler,” Jewish Virtual Library, <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Goerdeler.html> 34 “Carl Goerdler,” Spartacus Educational <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERgoerdeler.htm>

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35 “Claus von Stauffenberg: The Man who Tried to Kill Hitler,” History Net , <http://www.historynet.com/claus-von-stauffenberg-the-

man-who-tried-to-kill-hitler.htm> 36 “Claus von Stauffenberg,” Spartacus Educational, <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERstauffenberg.htm> 37 “The Tragedy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi,” The New York Review of Books,

<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/oct/25/tragedy-dietrich-bonhoeffer-and-hans-von-dohnanyi/?pagination=false>

38 “Hans von Dohnanyi,” Spartacus Educational, <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERdohnanyi.htm> 39 “Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” Jewish Virtual Library, <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Bonhoeffer.html>

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40 “Clemens Graf von Galen,” Vatican, <http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20051009_von-galen_ge.html> 41 “Blessed Clemens August, Graf von Galen,” Encyclopedia Britanica, <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/223894/Blessed-

Clemens-August-Graf-von-Galen>

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42 “Germany: Establishment of the Nazi Dictatorship.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. Web.

<http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005204> 43 “Opposition in Nazi Germany.” History Learning Site. Web.

<http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/opposition_nazi_germany.htm> 44 “Weimar Republic’s Constitution.” History Learning Site. Web.

<http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/weimar_republic_constitution.htm>

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45 “German Resistance to Hitler.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. Web.

<http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005208> 46 Lightbody, Bradley. “Invasion of Poland.” BBC History. Web.

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/invasion_poland_01.shtml> 47 “German Wartime Expansion.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. Web.

<http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005481>

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48 “Schutzstaffel (SS).” Spartacus Educational. Web. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERss.htm> 49 “The Gestapo.” Jewish Virtual Library. Web.

<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Gestapo.html>

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50 “World War II Timeline: 1944.” World War II History Info. Web.

<http://www.worldwar2history.info/1944.html> 51 “Adolf Hitler.” Jewish Virtual Library. Web. <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler.html> 52 Doyle, D. “Adolf Hitler’s Medical Care.” Royal College Physicians of Edinburgh 35 (2005): 75 – 82. Print.

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